Malformed respositories element could use a better error message ----------------------------------------------------------------
Key: MNG-3857 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3857 Project: Maven 2 Issue Type: Improvement Components: POM Affects Versions: 2.0.9 Reporter: Justin Edelson Priority: Minor Attachments: pom.xml If you create a pom that has a repository element like this: <repositories> <repository> <id>just.an.id</id> </repository> </repositories> The error message isn't at all helpful: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] null [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.maven.wagon.PathUtils.protocol(PathUtils.java:206) at org.apache.maven.wagon.repository.Repository.setUrl(Repository.java:121) at org.apache.maven.wagon.repository.Repository.<init>(Repository.java:74) at org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.DefaultArtifactRepository.<init>(DefaultArtifactRepository.java:87) at org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.DefaultArtifactRepositoryFactory.createArtifactRepository(DefaultArtifactRepositoryFactory.java:85) at org.apache.maven.project.ProjectUtils.buildArtifactRepository(ProjectUtils.java:105) at org.apache.maven.project.ProjectUtils.buildArtifactRepositories(ProjectUtils.java:56) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildArtifactRepositories(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:944) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1144) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:821) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFileInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:506) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:198) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProject(DefaultMaven.java:583) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:461) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:365) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:292) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) Would be nice to have this be a more obvious message. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira